A1:1 Informing Ideas - Over-view

 

Distinction criteria

Going forwards from now on, your research needs to include to key components. Within your research, you should always make reference to the clients, audience, users, and their needs. You should also discuss the purpose and the function of the work, whether the work is intended to; stimulate, express opinion, provoke or to inform. As part of your research’ you should also try and identify demographic details in the form of what types of people are interested in seeing the work. You should try and also analyse the work in terms of social and economic indicators.

Also - what sort of photography is it, where is it seen, what does the finished product look like? What is its function and use, how does the photographer make a living through the production of this type of photography (provide evidence). 

Once you have discussed the client, audience etc, you should find one of the more interesting pictures that you collected as part of your research and then deconstruct and analyse the image in terms of visual language and how the picture conveys meaning and narrative. Prompts for both aspects can be found on the blog here. https://bteclinks.blogspot.com/2022/05/research-prompts-2022.html

It's essential that one of the photographers that you choose to research ties in with your research more directly - informing the progression of your own work and longer term goals. To this end, when you reflect on your research (Once its completed) you explicitly explain/analyse the connection with your work, explaining what it is you're influenced by and what it is about the research that informs your  work, it might be something as simple as the lighting or it maybe there's a range of aspects within the research you're borrowing to inform and influence your work and progression.

Additional photographer research can be added to your work as the project develops to inform new ideas and approaches. 

Remember your research helps you to generate ideas and to understand what Photography’s purpose and aims are – the more photographers you have some knowledge of, the greater your own potential to come up with your own ideas

Technical aspects to it include the necessity to produce and use...

• Quotes
• Bibliography

The advised approach______________________________________________________

With regards the significant bodies of research you need to do, aim to produce something like the example below - 3 pages? Use plenty of images, but do deep research - search hard using a range of resources not restricted to the ones we suggest. Read the articles and watch the videos - this is an important part of your journey as a Student Photographer. 

The Lesser research______________________________________________

As you produce your work, there's an expectation that you might do further research mid-way through the project that's connected to your practical activities. If say you decided that one of your developmental/experimental shoots was to be produced using liquid emulsion, it might be that you then worked out some ideas by researching a photographer that used liquid emulsion. That research could be added as in the example below- the equivalent of a column? To get maximum benefit from your written content your commentary should be identifying operational context aspects, clients, audience and use all of the things that relate to how the photographer makes a living through photography. 

*Note because there's no use of quotes in the above version - quotes will need to be used in the lesser research as identified in the  blue text. 

In this example 7 additional photographers have been researched with a column per photographer except for the final one where 2 have been used.

You don't have to do 7, but an additional 2 Photographers would be fine.

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